Rosen-Roback style model to examine how differences in local coal availability affect equilibrium city employment. Drawing … on the model, the paper surveys papers that examine the net effects of coal on the growth in city population and air …

In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city …, which describes the strength of intra-city industry reallocations that has occurred over time. We find that human capital is …

overall welfare benefit of 1.12% per person. This involves mild losses for city incumbents but strong gains for city newcomers …

landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is dominated by Polish identity residents while those …

Throughout the imperial era, defensive walls surrounded Chinese cities. Although most city walls have vanished, the … historically had city walls. We document that cities that had walls in late imperial China have higher population and employment … to the city center today; (2) walled cities today tend to have different industry compositions that are less conducive to …

unchanged, and equalize within-city assortative matching geographical wage inequality in Germany would decrease significantly …, moreover, increased assortative matching will increase aggregate earnings. We estimate that the increase in within-city …

workers are also discussed. A bunkerized equilibrium in which skilled workers in the old economy no longer reside in the city … may gain by favoring it with a "diversity" subsidy for unskilled workers to reside in the city …

stakeholders perceive and interact with each other in the state-led SRPs in Shenyang City in Northeast China. Through in …